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Spare_Confidence1727 t1_ix19gjw wrote

Reply to comment by Zirnike in [WP] "The new species call themselves 'humans', and while their intelligence is on the low end when it comes to interstellar civilisations, their pure mathematical knowledge is far superior to the entire galactic community's." by Mabi19_

Coder here and I am still wondering how their ships held together let alone fly with their mathematics being base 8 never mind the military part of my brain has spoken kill them all

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Zirnike t1_ix1le1c wrote

I think base 8 isn't much of an issue. Might actually be an advantage if we "spoke" b8, considering the structuring of our computers.

The real question is, what the bloody hell does the system architecture of a computer running on roman numerals look like? 😀 Good thing the aliens are smart.

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